How to search for a folder name in python and delete it

Question

I have a directory of folders and subfolders that I need to search through to find a certain folder name, \"old data\", so that I can delete the files within \"old data\" and de

Answer 1

following code is for linux environment but shutil.rmtree() is what you need

1 import os                                                                                                                                                             
2 import shutil                                                                  
3                                                                                
4 root = "/home/user/input"                                                     
5 for i in os.walk(root, topdown=False):                                         
6      if i[0].split('/')[-1] == "test3":                                        
7          shutil.rmtree(i[0]) 

os.remove() - to remove file os.rmdir() - to remove empty dir shutil.rmtree() - to remove dir and all its content

Answer 2

See if the below code works for your scenario:

import os
import shutil

for root, subdirs, files in os.walk('C:/directory'):
    for d in subdirs:
        if d == "old data":
            shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(root, d))

shutil.rmtree will delete the entire "old data" directory